Drpao "quick croc hunting" in Laos - October 2009
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the 3rd time, I decided to made a quick croc hunting expedition to
Laos - visiting Vientiane & Savannakhet, to see some families and
catch-up with few friends... attending the Thatluang festival, the
ITec Exibitiion - and looking for DKJ (but he is no where to be
found).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/61375278@N00/sets/72157622605685091/
I took lots of foto in Vientiane, hoping to catch DKJ taking foto but
he is no where... I even asked some of the dozen of photographers at
Thatluang who would ofdfer for a quick souvenir shot for fre 1000's
kip...and they all said that they were DKJ!!
My Nepal trekking was postponed again due to last minute crashed with
my daughter who would do the trek with me. She has to stay back to
finish few minor thing at her University...so to finish her course. As
so, she is as at the 4th November 2009, to become the 1st Hmong girl
(and the 3rd Hmong medical doctors) to graduate from an OZ University
with a degree in Medicine, a degree in Surgery and a degree in Medical
Science (to become a medical doctor). So, she is NOW officially to be
known as Dr Selena Nkauj Hli Saykao!
DU
DownUnder
More foto & videos to come later...
DU
ກາສາລາວ
first of all, congrats to your daughter for this wonderful
achievement. this is a step forward for all lao.
i see that there have been some changes in your life. i miss the good
old time. life goes on.
mosp
in one of them, i saw the elder and family. is the elder is than leuam
insixiengmay ?
mosp
DownUnder
Thanks... Casalao. As an old wise gentleman used to tell me, you are a
real achiever if you can at least replicate yourself in your life time
- so at least I have done that!\
Life goes on... but as you have said, each day will be different and
it is a matter of how we use the time that is given to us: use it,
waste it or just watch it to goes by. Life is but memory and those
memory cost time, money and guts. Also as before we passed on, we have
to at least cause some ripple in the water or make some lasting effect
in this world that we live in to benefit others... hence, we need to
have a set collection of convictions that will guide us to live each
moment, not only for the good memory for ourselves but for the
betterment of others as well at the same time. So... Casalao, you may
have noted that there have been changes in my life, that would be an
understatement... there has been tiny changed, and they will be more
changes as life goes on...
How do you like this shot?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/61375278@N00/4073344903/sizes/l/in/set-72157622605685091/
Thanks again...
DU
DownUnder
Yes... one of the elder is Than Minister Leuam Insisienmay at
Savannakhet.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/61375278@N00/4071908644/in/set-72157622605685091/
The elder in Vientiane is Than Liang Insisiengmay.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/61375278@N00/4071341927/in/set-72157622605685091/
DU
social culture hmong
Thanks for sharing,
What else! can you tell in Laos.
Please respond.
dekfangkhong
Dr. Pao,
Kuv tsi tau ntsib koj thiab nrog koj tham dua. Tabsis raws li kuv sov
ntsuam thiab pom mas zoo li koj muaj kev ntseeg luag tog liab heev.
Tej zaum koj kuj yuav muaj kev phoojywg zoo heev rau luag. Kuv saib
mas koj yeej muaj peevxwm thiab plees kawg. Tabsis kuv kuj nrog koj
rhiab tav heev nawb. Nyaj koj yuav ceev ceev faj koj tus kheej lawm.
Ua tsaug.
yawgnomdub
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Kuv twb yeej hais los lawm ib zaug tias dr. pao zoo li tus dab muaj ob
lub taub hau no nev. Txawm li cas los xwj nyias muaj nyias lub hom
phiaj, yog teeb tau lawm kav tsij ua mus kom kawg.
yi...@charter.net
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Dr. Pao yog ib tus international individual. Nws yuav mus qhov twg los
tau. Vim nws tsis tsim yeeb ncuab nrog leej twg. Good for him.
Thank you for sharing the lovely pictures, especially that of Mr.
Leuame Insisienmay, the fomer Minister of Education of the old
regime. YingB
DKJ
Congratulations on your daughter's degree graduation and wish her to
have more successful life
I think you had a wonderful trip to Laos this time as it was very
quiet visit not like another one in 2006
That's why you said a "short visit" and interesting there was no any
official meeting for this visit
Btw, you have been honoured by having a short lunch with the new
foreign ministry spokesman
Anyway, thank you for your mention of DKJ in the topic
dkj
DownUnder
What do you wan to know?
Check your private mail,box for more info.
DU
mosp
Congratulations on your daughter's graduation !
sorry i was surprised when seeing than leuam insixiengmay pix.
he is soukaphab khemkheng. i think from his generation are not many
with us. wishing him many many moons ayou manh khuanh nheun.
mosp
DownUnder
Nws tsis yog tias leej ntwg muaj kev ntseeg leej twg. Nyob rau lub
sijhawm niajhnub no, yeej tsisi muaj leej twg yuav ntseeg tau leej twg
- tej zaum, yus tus kheej twb ntseeg tsis tau yus tus kheej lawm thiab
kuj muaj.
Qhov tseev ceeb kom yus muaj lub siab dawb plawg, yus ua dabtsuis yuav
tsum ua kom tau li yus hais, yus us tsis tau, yus yuav tsum hais kiag
tias yus yeej ua tsis tau... Lino, yus yuav tsum us kom hluag sawvdaws
saib tau yus ua ib tus neeg li yus ua tau. Qhov ob tuaj, yog yus ua
qhov zoo xwb, xav mus rau qhov zoo xwb thiab ua tus neeg siab ncaj
ncees, qhib siab lug, yus thiaj yuav ntau tau phoojywg rau nrog
sawvdaws. Kev ntau phoojywg yog ib qhov tseemceeb heev. Yog yus ntau
tsis tau phoojyoog ces yus yuav ua dabtsi los yuav ua tau nyuab.
Kuv tsis yug ib tug neeg ua kavmoo, ua teb ua chaw tabsi kuv muaj lub
siab xav kom peb cov kwvtij neejtsa nyob sab qhub qhab kom muaj cai li
ib tus peejxeem Los-Tsuas xwb. Qhov twg tsis ncaj-ncees, kuv yeej hais
tawg kiag vim tias nws yeej muaj tseeb - luag los yeej paub yeej pom
tib yam. Lino, yus hais qhov twg, luag thiab saib tau yus thiab - tsis
yog yus yuav lam tau lam hais.
Kuv mus Laos zaum no yog mus ncig ua si ib pliag xwb, tej hnub kuj
muaj caij (if time allowed) mus ntsib tej kwvtij neejtsa, tej phoojywg
- sib tham li kev sib mov
tshua xwb... raws li nej pom kuv cov photo (more photo to come). Kuv
mus qhov twg, kuv yeej muab los qhia thiab share rau sawvdaws tag -
tsis muaj qhov twg yuav muab zais cia hau lub siab li lwm tus. Nej
sim saib mas, peb muaj cov Hmoob mus Laos ntau caum leej, tabsis yeej
tsis muaj leej twg yuav kam los qhia rau sawvdaws kom pom txog lawv
kev mus ncig, mus ntsib kwjtij neejtsa thiab phoojywg nyob Laos li!!!
Yog leej twg xav paub txog dabtsi, kom email directly tuaj rau kus tus
email:
drpao1 at hmoob.net. Tus email post hauv no mas siv tsis tau lawm,
tshuas yog siv los post xwb nawj.
More later....
DU
Nty
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nty
On Nov 3, 9:12 pm, DownUnder <drpao...@dex.hmoob.net> wrote:
DownUnder
DKJ et. al.,
Thank you, every one, for your kind word about my daughter graduation.
It is indeed another milestone for the second Laonork generation to be
able to move on. She was extreme happy and relief that after 6 long
years of hard study, the fruit is finally ripened to be enjoy. This
girl is very caring as a doctor, she has been working & studying at
the Polynesia islands, in India and Nepal and has made 2 trips to the
Philippine as part of the Rainbow Plastic Surgery visit to offer free
surgery to the poor people in that country. She has tour Europe,
America but, fluent in French but not Lao, she missed her placement in
Laos as she could not get accommodation and placement in Luangprabang
for her elective study.... may be one day she will be there.
As for my trip, it was an enjoyable trip indeed with no official
engagement, only visiting few people like Achan Vichit at Thaluang
(more photo to come..), HE Khenthong and catch up with few friends( Dr
Bounkhuang and Dr Khamphad (the husband of Pany):
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_lOGnlLaEWf4/SvFjtdwaKYI/AAAAAAAAA0A/2Q8KyEeCt2M/s640/SDC15625.JPG
http://picasaweb.google.com/drpao.oz/OldLyceeSavan2009?authkey=Gv1sRgCJGPh8zVm9zuogE#
DU
DownUnder
It is not that the Hmong are good in study.. but it is only because,
they know how hard and how fortunate for each one of them to be able
to study where they are... so by working hard, they seem to bypass
their laolum friends who are equally capable but probably having an
easier life, so less motivation to study.
Anyway, thanks for all your kind words about my daughter achievement.
Hakpheng to all,
DU
DownUnder
Yeah... Than Leuam Insixiengmay, age over 90+ years old, appears to
me to be in good health, body & mind... and in high spirit. I was
quite surprise as well because, there are not many people of his
generation who are still in that good health and still with us.
Unfortunately, that I did not have enough time with him... but with
our short visit, i did take few photos and video-record our visit and
conversation with him. When I was in France in May 2009, I also met
with Pagna Houphan Sayasith (who married to the Insisiengmay and he
has completed the Insisiengmay family tree - for your Info) and he is
as robust as any one at 82 years of age.
Hakpheng,
DU
vaajmoob
ib plag nam yau chimx ov, peb maam npaaj ib tug tub moob vaaj nyob mad
city tuaj yuav koj tug ntshais og, paab koj zoo sab tsua tug mivnyuag
og,
vmged
MS32
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Dr. Pao,
Congratulation to the success of your daughter. Your success is part
of ours and the Lao overseas as well.
Thanks for sharing the pictures.
Dr. Moua Sao
pizone
congratulation to your daughter for her success. wish her luck in life
and career. it's hard for me to believe that Hmong "bypass" Laolum in
education, either in Oz or here in the usa, since i know lots of
Laolum kids have the same success as your daughter as far as education
is concerned, only most of them like to stay in low-key and live their
life quietly and peacefully as in the "bor-pengyung" mentality in
every aspect of life. i think it depends on individual and family,
it's hard to say one ethnic is better than the other.
again congratulation to you and your family to have a wonderful Hmong
Lao Aussi daughter.
pizone
> It is not that the Hmong are good in study.. but it is only because,
> they know how hard and how fortunate for each one of them to be able
> to study where they are... so by working hard, they seem to bypass
> their laolum friends who are equally capable but probably having an
> easier life, so less motivation to study.
>
> Anyway, thanks for all your kind words about my daughter achievement.
>
> Hakpheng to all,
>
Born2beMhong
Congratulation to your daughter's success and to the Thao Saykao's
families, she is a remarkable lady that can set her feet onto her dad
foot steps. Wishing her well!
Thanks for sharing those pictures, and I whole heartedly agree with
Yingb. Nowadays, we don't take side no more, such that we are trying
to enjoy our own life--because life is too short to waste.
Born2beHmong
DownUnder
Thanks for all your congratulation remark on the occasion of my
daughter graduation.
I will pass on all ypur kind words to her.
Thanks again.
DU
Thanks...
samphong
personal meeting with the new and official Lao PDR spokesman) what all
the hoopla is all about with the government's on-going propaganda
coming out of DKJ and Yong. Afterall, Mr. Khenthong Nouanthasinh is
your best friend when he was the Ambassador to Australia.
samphong
Yong Chanthalangsy! Just re-read your contradictory statement!
You said, "As for my trip, it was an enjoyable trip indeed with no
official engagement, only visiting few people like Achan Vichit at
Thaluang
(more photo to come..), HE Khenthong and catch up with few friends (Dr
Bounkhuang and Dr Khamphad (the husband of Pany)"
Khenthong may be your friend, but he is also the official national
spokesperson of the one-party Hammer and Sickle government run by Lao
People's Revolutionary Party.
Dr Khamphad may be your friend, but he is also the husband of the Pany
Yathotou, a Politburo Member of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party,
the neucleus of that country's one party rule.
It is no wonder extremists on both sides (Yong on the one hand and his
critics on the other), have no respect for you. You're a living
contradiction unto yourself.
DownUnder
Hi Samphong,
See my other post:
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.laos/browse_frm/thread/71e9318fc5586acd#
DU